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Anti-bullying policy in child and adolescent psychiatric units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Stephanie Sommers  and
Lucia Whitney
Stephanie Sommers
Affiliation:
Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust
Lucia Whitney*
Affiliation:
Rivermead, Belper, Derby DE56 1UU
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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Bullying is a common problem. There has been much written on the subject, mainly relating to schools. In this study a questionnaire was sent to 66 child and adolescent psychiatric units in the UK, 50 (75%) were returned. The units were surveyed on frequency of bullying, whether an anti-bullying policy was in place and whether difficulties had been encountered setting up the policy. An anti-bullying policy was present in only 10% of units. Further research is needed on bullying and appropriate and effective methods of dealing with it on child and adolescent psychiatric units.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 9 , September 1998 , pp. 557 - 559
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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